Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom. The life of Karol Wojtyla and his accomplishment as Pope John Paul II suggest a dramatic, alternative possibility: that a man who has been seized and transformed by the "more excellent way" can bend the curve of history so that freedom's cause is advanced.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?

from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?

I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue.

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.